Hot Process Soap Making

Before entering warm process it would be good to master the basic process of making soap (cold process). The essence of the warm process is that you finish the saponification by cooking, not by drying as in a cold process. The cold process is better in the sense that highly valuable oil ingredients remain preserved and are not destroyed by thermal treatment. In the event of liquid soap must apply hot process. These pictures and process were written just when I was making liquid soap. Hot-prepared soaps are immediately ready for use.
Cold process are exactly the same moment to mix a solution of the base, and distilled water. In a hot process, you can already mix it in an inox pot where you will cook. This means that prepared and washed oils are immediately put into an inox cooking pot and added to the solution of the base. So add the solution to the oil, not the reverse. You do not have to wait for temperature equalization as in the cold procedure, as everything is still cooked. With a rod mixer you try to get a uniform and homogeneous mixture. The mixture will become creamy and will slowly dull. When you get the "track" you are ready for cooking. The pot in which you have prepared the soap mixture is now put into a pot with water.
For hot process you need to have two pots of steaming. The level of water in a larger pot should be up to the level of the soap mixture in a small pot.

Hot Process Soap Making

During cooking you will first have a situation when free oils will swim on the surface. Mix occasionally. I realized that mixing helps and accelerates saponification. Even occasionally, the entire mixture was mixed with a rod mixer. This was because I made this liquid soap that usually contains twice as much distilled water, so it is less frequent. When using solid soaps you will have to mix it manually. You may want to use a mixer.


The free oil will be less and less. Different oils are differently saponified and need different time. The exact cooking time can not be known precisely because it depends on the oils. The only way you can know that you're done is a test. In tongue try to squeeze the crumb of the soap mixture. If you feel uncomfortable, saponification is not over yet. When you can lick it without a stressful feeling, then it's over. I cooked this mixture for about an hour and a half.
When you have a finished mixture, it is time to add the scent of color and everything you've been looking for. Hot-formed soaps in this regard have a great advantage over cold-formed soaps. By this I mean the plants that can serve you to get the color, which otherwise come into contact with the base, and usually result in some strange and unexpected color. As saponification in this case is over and there is no uncovered base, you can add plants and smells freely.